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The comedies of The Merchant of Venice, and As you like it, with the notes ... - Page 10
by William Shakespeare - 1805
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Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and ...

Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...smiling, and the tone of voice sprightly. EXAMPLE. LET me play the fool With mirth and laughter ; so let wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine,...within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ? Sleep whenne wakes, and creep into the jaundice, By being peevish ? I tell thee what, Antonio, (I love thee,...
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The water queen, or, The mermaid of loch Lene, and other tales

H. Coates - 1832 - 880 pages
...only between themselves, but their friends, families, and connections. 76 CHAP. VIII. Let me pl»y the fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles...with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Merchant of Venice. Oirphedach, or the Harper. " QUALE," exclaimed Bertram, as they descended together...
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Pierce Egan's Book of Sports, and Mirror of Life: Embracing the Turf, the ...

Pierce Egan - 1832 - 432 pages
...the fuolt With mirth and laughter let old wrinkle* come, And let my liver rather heat with wine, Thau my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man whose blood is warm within, Sit like hid grandsire cut in alabaster, Sleep when he wakes, and creep into the jaundice, By being peevish...
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Current Comment and Legal Miscellany, Volume 2

1890 - 838 pages
...hours when it is an uncomfortable performance? Or, as Gratiano observed to Bassanio and Lorenzo : — Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ? — Providence Journal. 33 SUFFRAGE, in fifteen States, has been, by their constitutions and laws,...
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Shakespeare's Universe of Discourse: Language-Games in the Comedies

Keir Elam - 1984 - 360 pages
...the world but as the world Gratiano, A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one. Gra. Let me play the fool, With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, . . . 69 There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a stand1ng pond, . . . As who...
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Ideology of Adventure: Studies in Modern Consciousness, 1100-1750, Volume 1

Michael Nerlich - 1987 - 282 pages
...like Antonio, who has none, mourn for such a semblance? Using himself as an example, Gratiano says: Let me play the fool! With mirth and laughter let...wakes, and creep into the jaundice By being peevish? 1 tell thee what, Antonio — 1 love thee, and it is my love that speaks — There are a sort of men...
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Shakespeare's Comic Commonwealths

Camille Wells Slights - 1993 - 316 pages
...Solanio's account of men of 'vinegar aspect' and Gratiano's rhetori128 Change and Continuity cal query: 'Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, / Sit like his grandsire cut in alablaster?' (li83-4). Although Portia is similarly disdainful, her extended flight of wit is less...
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Alternative Shakespeare Auditions for Men

William Shakespeare, Simon Dunmore - 1997 - 132 pages
...fish, easily caught; figuratively, a gullible person! 26 exhortation sermon Act 1, Scene 1 Gratiano 1 Let me play the fool. With mirth and laughter let...with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. 5 Why should a man whose blood is warm within Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster. Sleep when he...
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Standup Shakespeare

Ray Leslee, Kenneth Welsh - 1998 - 44 pages
...instrument.) Note this before his note; there's not a note of his worth the noting. (Fool plays a solo.) FOOL. Let me play the fool ... with mirth and laughter let...with wine than my heart cool with mortifying groans. (Male Singer scats. Fool solos.) Blow blow thou winter wind. Give us some music, good cousin sing....
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The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874-1888

Thomas Hardy - 1999 - 468 pages
...Merchant of Venice, Gratiano argues that one should pursue pleasure to the fullest, even in old age: Let me play the fool! With mirth and laughter let...come, And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my cool heart with mortifying groans. Why should a man whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire...
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